θύελλα
thýella · G2366 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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windstorm, whirlwind, squall
Sudden and violent gusts of winds, often from varied directions
ExamplesHebrews 12:18 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- λαῖλαψ laîlaps · G2978 · windstorm, whirlwind, squall
- Both terms denote a violent windstorm or squall. They describe the same narrow meteorological phenomenon, as their nearly identical glosses ('whirlwind' or 'squall' for both) make clear, and are properly treated as near synonyms rather than distinct concepts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Windstorm, whirlwind, squall14.6
- In Hebrews 12:18, believers are told they have not come to Sinai, “to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,” using this word for a violent windstorm.
Word family 22 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon θυελλης, ἡ (θύω to boil, foam, rage, as ἄελλα from ἄω, ἄημι), a sudden storm, tempest,…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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